For more than two years, a barefoot cartoon boy was the mascot of “Handala,” a self-described pro-Palestinian hacktivist collective that leaked the private photos of Israeli generals, wiped the servers of a Fortune 500 company, and broke into the personal inbox of the FBI director. The group insisted it was a grassroots resistance movement. It was not—and the IRGC has now confirmed that the man who actually ran it faced kinetic consequences for his digital warfare.
Also, the ultra-Orthodox: Netanyahu's Achilles' heel or hidden strength? Out of tragedy, hope, and more.
All in today’s edition of It’s Noon in Israel.
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For more than two years, a barefoot cartoon boy was the mascot of “Handala,” a self-described pro-Pa
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